[Marxism] Tomorrow Venezuela goes to the polls once again

[Mike Friedman]

In John Pilger's film, "The War on Democracy," the Venezuelan capitalists
Pilger interviews are more than clear about this. They wax eloquent about
their roots and "ownership" of Miami, their identification with the U.S.
and their identity as a "cosmopolitan" class.


> The main enemy is not the Venezuelan capitalist class. Insofar as there
> are some very large capitalists, for example the Cisneros group, they
> have long since stopped being Venezuelan in most senses, in that they've
> become part of imperialist capital, as symbolized and demonstrated by the
> transfer of their corporate headquarters to Miami.


Michael Friedman
Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior
City University of New York

Institute for Comparative Genomics
Department of Invertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History
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"Ya me gritaron mil veces
que me regrese a mi tierra,
Porque aqui no quepo yo
Quiero recordarle al gringo:
Yo no cruce la frontera,
la frontera me cruzo"
- Los Tigres del Norte